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Friday, April 13, 2018

Several tens of thousands of Jews have relocated in recent years, in what authors call "internal exodus."

A Jewish cemetery in
Brumath, France, vandalized with Nazi symbols

Illustration: RTXN0PC

Anti-Semitic
expressions in the public sphere saw a rise in 2017 even as acts of
physical violence toward Jews continued to drop, the Kantor Center for
the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University said in a
report published Wednesday.

The report noted a particularly dramatic
spike in anti-Semitic comments and abuse in schools and across social
media. This anti-Semitism is attributed in the report to three primary
factors: the rise of the extreme Right; the heightened anti-Zionist
discourse among the Left, which is often accompanied by expressions of
anti-Semitism; and radical Islam.

"Jews were especially exposed on social
media, to direct threats, pestering, harassment, derision and calls to
harm Jews in the workplace. In schools, universities, soccer stadiums,
at street rallies, near Jewish institutions," the Kantor Center report
said.

The Center, meanwhile, documented 327 cases of anti-Semitic acts across the globe in 2017, compared to 361 in 2016.

The excuse: Trump's declaration

The authors of the report stressed that the
source of anti-Semitic incidents was not relegated to Muslim and Arab
circles or organizations. Other groups with no such affiliations from
across the political spectrum have held protest rallies expressing anger
over a wide range of political developments completely unrelated to the
issue of Jerusalem or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – which has
fostered a sense of insecurity among Jews and concerns pertaining to the
erosion of Jewish communal life. These feelings were reinforced by the murders of Sarah Halimi and Mireille Knoll in their homes in Paris.

The final weeks of 2017 (and initial months
of 2018) were characterized by a large number of anti-Semitic incidents
across the globe. U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of
Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December of 2017 either motivated or
was used as an excuse for these incidents. Angry protests featuring
anti-Semitic slogans and even calls for killing Jews and burning the
Israeli flag were not carried out solely by Muslim or Arab groups.

France marked a 7.2% overall decrease in
the number of incidents but saw a rise in violent anti-Semitic acts,
which jumped from 77 in 2016 to 97 in 2017. Several tens of thousands of
Jews in recent years have relocated homes in their respective
countries, in what the authors of the report called an "internal
exodus."

Another disconcerting trend the authors of
the report point to is the growing strength of the far Right in several
European countries and in the United States. The success of the far
Right, meanwhile, can serve as a distraction from the rise in
anti-Semitism among leftist groups – such as the BDS movement and ANTIFA
and within the British Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy
Corbin – which support radical Muslim and anti-Zionist viewpoints.

Leaders and governments declare their
support for Israel and the Jewish community, but "as time passes and the
Second World War and Holocaust increasingly belong to the distant past,
so wanes the commitment to the safety of Jews and Israel among the
younger generations," the report said.

Dan Lavie and Israel Hayom Staff Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/04/12/anti-semitic-incidents-in-us-up-57-in-2017/ Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.

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